Saturday, April 15, 2017

Silkie’s Mysteriously Wild Night

My night time routine usually includes 75%
of my sleep in the bedroom and 25% either the couch or Jane’s old lift chair in
the living room. Somewhere between 3 and 4:30 a.m., I transfer from the bed to
the chair or couch. At that time, it is dark in the living room but with some
light from the outside street lamp coming through the blind slats, I can see enough to not trip over the cat
if she is lying on the floor at that time.

I usually can also see her “treat mousie.” It’s white
plastic on the bottom, clear on the top with the treat holes, and painted
mousie face. These days, with her diet changes (as of the Valentine Day
injury), it no longer houses Temptations. But she is happy just trying to get a
few of her prescription diet kibbles out of it. So I expected to navigate
around that.

This morning, however, I noticed a shiny blue ball-type
thing near the treat-mousie. I made my way to the lamp, turned it on, and
looked back in curiosity. She rarely, if ever, plays with any of the cat toys
left from former cats. The only toys that ever interest this cat must either dispense
food or reek of catnip.

Not only was I surprised at the shiny blue ball, which
dispenses nothing at all, but I also saw the cloth birdie that tweets if you press
it a certain way, and one of the furry catnip mousies (you pull its velcro’d
tummy open and add catnip from time to time.

She had all four toys strewn around the middle of the living
room rug.

Obviously my normally unsocial fur-kid had some kind of wild
party in there overnight. I am grateful because she was very quiet about it -
in the past many of my fur-kids have been very noisy in their midnight parties.

But her new antics do have me curious - I wonder if I should
consider a kitty go-pro?

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Pudgy little ol' lady who is grateful for what she's got and loves to share with others. Time-challenged, funds-challenged, but somehow finds a way to deal with it all. I've lived in 4 states (PA for 21 yrs, NJ for 17 yrs, CA for 15 yrs, and NV since '94). Married at 18, divorced at 21, no kids but helped raise several. Raised Catholic, fell away, came back and grateful for the second chance.